Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most delicate political campaigns in Boston's history with a dedicated but only average campaign staff and a need to spend valuable hours in one of Boston's most venerable political institutions--the money room. Apart from their headquarters, candidates for high, and expensive public offices, usually maintain a posh suite of rooms where they greet and meet potential financial contributors. To add to the atmosphere of exclusiveness, the location of the money room is always a well-guarded secret...
...Lindsay can maintain the pace and record he has set so far in "un governable" Gotham, he may well prove a formidable opponent by 1972 or 1976 for Bobby or any other Democrat. He is a dove on Viet Nam, but maintains: "I do not believe, and never have, that the U.S. should unilaterally withdraw from Viet Nam tomorrow." His intimacy with the urban crisis is his trump card for the future, since that is likely to be the No. 1 U.S. domestic problem for generations...
...proud history of producing more top-notch practicing lawyers, public officials, and judges than any other school in the nation. Because of its size--over 500 students per class--the Law School's stature should not diminish much in the next few years. But if the school intends to maintain its pre-eminent position in American public life, its new Dean must try a wide variety of policies to attract the nation's best students and teachers...
...jail again before the execution. In between these events are Nat's recollections of his own past. Styron's weaving of past and present is complex but in no way confusing. It is a great credit to Styron's art that he can leap about chronologically and yet maintain the drama and clarity of the story. Throughout the novel, Nat maintains a vague distance from the insurrection and the trial. Emotional build-up instead develops from isolated experiences he has under the yoke of different masters. But as the book proceeds, the suppressed rage intensifies, Nat's recitations...
There are infinite gradations on the hippie scale--from the down-and-out hip-bo to the Harvard student in flowered shirt to the young executive who likes to turn on. The Mayor finds it convenient to maintain that the hip-bo's are the sine qua non of the hippie movement. But in the treacly web of hippie contact and connection, everyone has communication with everyone and strict dependence...